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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:308"
article_number: "308"
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heading: "Duty to apply for appointment."
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VIII › Chapter 1 › Section 10"
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# Art. 308. Duty to apply for appointment.

In every case where it is necessary to appoint a tutor to a minor, all those of his relations who reside within the parish of the judge, who is to appoint him, are bound to apply to such judge, in order that a tutor be appointed to the minor at farthest within ten days after the event which make [makes] such appointment necessary.